Great Websites
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18to35
18to35 is the policy research arm of America's youth movement. We are a non-profit, non-partisan policy organization dedicated to engaging young adults in the political process. -
2020 Vision
2020 Vision and 2020 Vision Education Fund are dedicated to solving global challenges where international security, energy and the environment come together. We see that today's great global challenges are linked, and we strive to find overarching solutions. -
ACRORN
ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is the nation's largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families, working together for social justice and stronger communities. Since 1970, ACORN has grown to more than 350,000 member families, organized in 850 neighborhood chapters in over 100 cities across the U.S. and in cities in Argentina, Peru, Mexicao, the Dominican Republic and Canada. -
America Votes
America Votes is a coalition of 37 of the largest membership-based groups in the country, who have come together to increase voter registration, education and participation in electoral politics. This historic partnership represents a combined membership of more than 20 million Americans in every state in the country. Groups that are a part of America Votes work on a broad range of issues including the environment, civil and human rights, choice, education and labor. -
BBYO
With more than 18,000 members and 80 years of experience, BBYO is known as the largest and most effective provider of identity-building and leadership development programs for Jewish teens. -
Can I Vote?
A Voter Registration Site from the National Association of Secretaries of State. -
CIRCLE
Funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts and Carnegie Corporation of New York, and housed at the University ofMaryland's School of Public Affairs, CIRCLE (www.civicyouth.org) is a premier source of impartial, nonpartisan, and comprehensive data, research, and analysis on the civic engagement of young people. -
Close Up Foundation/First Vote
Close Up is one of the nation's leading civic education providers. Making it their mission to educate, inspire, and empower individuals to become active citizens in our democracy. Each year, through their Washington, D.C.-based experiential learning programs and our multi-media publications, Close Up helps more than 1 million students and teachers in 15,000 schools nationwide develop the skills needed to begin a lifetime of active citizenship. -
College Democrats of America
The College Democrats of America (CDA) is the official student outreach arm of the Democratic Party. It aims to train and engage new generations of Democratic activists and shape the Democratic Party with voices from America's youth. -
College Republican National Committee
The College Republican National Committee (CRNC) is the nation's oldest and largest youth political organization, with over 200,000 members and chapters on over 1,775 campuses. -
Declare Yourself
Declare Yourself is a national nonpartisan, nonprofit campaign to energize and empower every eligible 18-year-old in America to register and vote in the 2008 presidential election. Partnering with leaders in education, the entertainment industry, popular online destinations and media outlets, the fashion industry and retailers, Declare Yourself registered well over one million people in the 2004 and 2006 elections. -
Donkaphant
The Donkaphant Film Festival is the first non-partisan interactive film festival, bridging the monumental gap between the political and entertainment worlds. Throughout the course of 2008, Donkaphant will travel to colleges and universities, film festivals, and cultural centers across America. Their goal is to educate audiences on the importance of voting and the issues that are affecting America via a series of social, cultural and political issue-based short films. In the last 44 years of presidential voting (1960-2004) the national voter turnout average has only been 55.1%. That means that roughly half of the country has been making choices for the entire US population. The Donkaphant Film Festival is proposing a challenge to America..."BEAT 1960!". 1960 marks the highest voter turnout in the last 48 years, at 63.1%. Through the power of film Donkaphant hopes to gather, educate, and inspire audiences to change their world for the better and raise voter percentage in the 2008 Presidential election. -
DoSomething
DoSomething believes that young people have the power to make a difference. They aim to inspire, support and celebrate a generation of do-ers: people who see the need to do something, believe in their ability to get it done, and then take action. The website is a community where young people learn, listen, speak, vote, volunteer, ask, and take action to make the world a better place. Currently, only 23% of this generation actively volunteers. DoSomething¹s hope is to create a do something generation: a world where more than 51% of young people are involved with community action. -
Earth Day Network
Founded by the organizers of the first Earth Day in 1970, Earth Day Network (EDN) promotes environmental citizenship and year round progressive action worldwide. -
Easy Voter
The Easy Voter Guide Project is dedicated to the idea that all people should have access to nonpartisan information about the why, how and what of voting and other forms of civic involvement. -
USA Gov
As the U.S. government's official web portal, USA.gov makes it easy for the public to get U.S. government information and services on the web. USA.gov also serves as the catalyst for a growing electronic government. -
The Forum for Youth Investment
The Forum for Youth Investment (the Forum) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan action tank dedicated to helping communities and the nation make sure all young people are Ready by 21(tm) - ready for college, work and life. The Forum provides national and local change makers from all systems and sectors with the information, technical assistance, training, network support and partnership opportunities needed to increase the quality and quantity of youth investment and youth involvement. -
Generation Engage
Generation Engage is a nonpartisan youth-civic-engagement initiative that connects young Americans to political leaders, to other civic organizations, and to meaningful debate about the future they will inherit. -
Get in the Game
Get In the Game is a nonpartisan voter development initiative. This project is designed to encourage all sports fans to register to vote and participate in the electoral process.
Harvard Institute of Politics http://www.iop.harvard.edu/ Harvard University's Institute of Politics (IOP), located at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, was established in 1966 as a memorial to President Kennedy. The IOP's mission is to unite and engage students, particularly undergraduates, with academics, politicians, activists, and policymakers on a non-partisan basis and to stimulate and nurture their interest in public service and leadership. The Institute strives to promote greater understanding and cooperation between the academic world and the world of politics and public affairs. -
Kids Voting USA
Kids Voting USA and its network of affiliates partner with educators and election officials to engage 3.8 million K-12 students. The goal is to engage 20 million students by 2016. The national organization wants to complete its transition to the Capital region by fall 2007 so it can focus on the wide-open presidential election in 2008. The next 16 months are viewed as a particularly rich "teachable moment" for young people, whose attitudes towards political participation could be shaped for the rest of their lives. -
League of Women Voters
The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, has fought since 1920 to improve our systems of government and impact public policies through citizen education and advocacy. The League's enduring vitality and resonance comes from its unique decentralized structure. The League is a grassroots organization, working at the national, state and local levels. -
Mobilize.Org
Mobilize.org, formerly Mobilizing America's Youth is an all-partisan network dedicated to educating, empowering, and energizing young people to increase our civic engagement and political participation. We work to show young people how their lives are impacted by public policy and in turn, how we can impact public policy. -
National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS)
Founded in 1904, NASS is the oldest nonpartisan professional organization for public officials in the US. Members include the 50 states, the District of Columbia and the territories of American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico and the USVI. -
National Council on Black Civic Participation
The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation is a national non-profit, non-partisan civic coalition of over 80 member organizations dedicated to enhancing the full participation of the Black community in all levels of civil society. -
New Voters Project
The New Voters Project is a grassroots, peer-to-peer young voter mobilization initiative now running in 6 targeted states and in a number of expansion states as well. We're running the largest non-partisan, non-profit field campaign in electoral history to get people our age registered to vote and engaged in political choices that will affect our lives for years to come. -
The Politico
The Politico launched in January, 2007 with the mission of covering the politics of Capitol Hill and of the presidential campaign, and the business of Washington lobbying and advocacy with enterprise, style, and impact. The Politico is a publication of Capitol News Company, LLC. -
Presidential Classroom
Presidential Classroom is a nonprofit, nonpartisan 501(c)3 civic education program, approved by the National Association of Secondary School Principals Student Activity Listing and endorsed by the National Education Association, Congressional Youth Award and Who's Who Among American High School Students. -
Project Vote Smart
Thousands of candidates and elected officials, who works for you? Who is seeking your vote? Project Vote Smart, a citizen's organization, has developed a Voter's Self-Defense System to provide you with the necessary tools to self-govern effectively: abundant, accurate, unbiased and relevant information. -
Rock the Vote
Rock the Vote is a non-profit, non-partisan organization, founded in 1990 in response to a wave of attacks on freedom of speech and artistic expression. -
SAVE
SAVE is a student-led nonprofit, nonpartisan organization with chapters currently on 25 college campuses, founded to increase voter turnout, remove access barriers, and promote stronger civic education. In addition to advocating policy changes to enhance traditional get-out-the-vote efforts, SAVE works with community leaders, high school teachers, college faculty, state and federal legislators, and fellow students to strengthen the commitment in their communities for political dialogue and institutionalize voter awareness and active civic engagement. -
SMART VOTER
Find all the information you need at smartvoter.org- type in your home address and find out who you can vote for, where you can vote and information about the candidates and issues. -
Southwest Voter Registration Project
SVREP is committed to educate Latino communities across the Southwest about the democratic process, the importance of voter registration, and voter participation. At its core is its mission to politically empower Latinos by increasing civic engagement in the American electoral system. -
Student PIRGS
The Student Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs) are non-partisan, student directed, state-based organizations that work to solve public interest problems related to the environment, consumer protection, and government reform. For 30 years, students involved with PIRG chapters on college campuses have had a chance to face up to society's big problems, take action, and win concrete changes that improve the quality of our lives. The goal of the Student PIRGs' New Voters Project is to increase youth electoral participation and show politicians and opinion leaders that young voters are an important constituency, deserving and demanding of their attention.
United States Student Association
The United States Student Association (USSA) is the country's oldest and largest national student organization, representing millions of students. Founded in 1947, USSA is the recognized voice for students on Capitol Hill, in the White House, and in the Department of Education.
Vote411
Access to registration, polling place locations, absentee ballots, and more!
Vote for America
Vote for America is the Common valium Cause Education Fund's non-partisan, tramadol get-out-the-vote project. It unites citizens from all xanax walks of life and all political perspectives to raise hydrocodone voter turnout through Pledge. Learn. Vote.
YPulse
Ypulse is an independent blog for teen/youth media and marketing professionals providing news, commentary and resources on commercial teen media for teens (teen magazines, websites), entertainment for teens (movies, games, television, music), technology used by teens (cell phones, instant messaging, SMS), the news media's desire to attract teens (newspapers, cable news), marketing and advertising (targeting the teen market) and civic youth media (highlighting organizations' efforts at promoting youth voices in media).
Young Voter Strategies
Young Voter Strategies is a nonpartisan project of The Graduate School of Political Management at The George Washington University, with support from The Pew Charitable Trusts. Young Voter Strategies provides the public, parties, candidates, consultants and non-profits with data on the youth vote and tools to effectively mobilize this electorate.
Youth Leadership Initiative
Youth Leadership Initiative is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization based at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. YLI develops free K-12 civic education ion resources designed to encourage student interest and participation in the American political process. Through their website, students may participate in mock elections, a mock congress and campaign simulations, and teachers may download civics and government lesson plans.
Youth Service America
Building a global culture of engaged youth who are committed to a lifetime of service, learning, leadership, and achievement.
Wireless Communications Association International
Founded in 1988, the Wireless Communications Association International (WCA) is the non-profit trade and professional association for the Wireless Broadband industry. Its member companies on six continents represent the bulk of the sector's leading carriers, vendors and consultants.
WWE-Smackdown Your Vote
WWE's Smackdown Your Vote is an "apartisan" campaign to encourage young people to become active participants in their democracy and vote. Working with several non-partisan partners and the major political parties, WWE and its Superstars have the sole focus of encouraging more young people to register and vote, and to have more candidates for political office address the credible issues of Americans under 30.